Highlights

Zs“Acres of Skin”

Zs’ new album, New Slaves, is due May 11 on The Social Registry. But you knew that already because we posted a live video of “Acres of Skin” earlier this month. Why are we posting again? Because the Chocolate Grinder LOVES it some Zs.

Don’t Mind Control Variety Show [live soundboard recording]

Polyvinyl has made available a soundboard recording of Joan of Arc’s Don’t Mind Control Variety Show from earlier this year at Chicago’s Empty Bottle. The performance features over 30 musicians, including a surprise reunion set by Cap’n Jazz. You can download the 24-song set here.

Friends and Friends of Friends [free compilation album]

Here’s a free digital download from new Baltimore label Friends Records. It’s titled, appropriately enough, Friends and Friends of Friends. The label is also releasing the comp as a limited-edition cassette, so if you’re a tape fetishist, head on over to Friends Records to order copies for you and your friends. Don’t have any friend? Then you’re a total loser, loser.